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Júlia Tovar Verba is PhD student of our research group at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. In her thesis she is integrating fishers’ knowledge and scientific information, as well as genetic analysis to build distribution and abundance models for marine fishes of economic interest for Brazil.  Currently, she is doing an internship the Conservation Genetics Lab, at Macquarie University (Australia) with Prof. Adam Stow. Her goal there is to apply Seascape Genetics analysis to identify important environmental drives for connectivity between populations of a snapper ( Lutjanus jocu ) and a parrotfish ( Sparisoma axillare ) in the entire Brazilian coast and between coastal and oceanic islands.  Júlia Tovar Verba This internship has been supported by the Endeavour Research Fellowships program of the Australian Government, National Geographic Society and CNPq. We will see soon new interesting results about here project, meanwhile… From: http://obiat.com.au/phd-thesis-writing/

During the last two years we have been working together with the Oceanica NGO and researchers of the Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD, France) and Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE, Brasil), in a project funded by the Fundação Grupo Boticário . The project took place in Fernando de Noronha (FN) archipelago with the main goal of identifying vulnerable ecological areas for seabirds of FN, which is an oasis of marine life in relatively barren open ocean. Indeed among others remarkable biological features, FN accommodates the largest concentration of tropical seabirds to be found in the Western Atlantic Ocean. FN is protected by two different categories of protected area, according to the Brazilian legistlation: an APA (environmental protection area) covering mainly terrestrial ecosystems since 1986 and a marine national park, covering 112.7 km 2 of the archipelago, since 1988. Since 2001, the APA and the core and buffer area of the national park were listed as W